Stan Van Gundy Quotes

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Stan Van Gundy

Profession : Coach

Birth : August 26, 1959

I think we get a little carried away with ourselves with sports thinking we're more important than everything else.

Stan Van Gundy

Christmas to me, obviously, basketball is very important to me, but there are some days of the year where it's got to take a back seat to something.

Stan Van Gundy

The league has been good to all of us in terms of what we get out of all these TV contracts and everything, so it would be a little disingenuous to complain too much. But if I had my way, we'd take a five-day break at Christmas. I mean it.

Stan Van Gundy

We've changed a lot of things to help certain groups of people. We widened the lane from 6 feet to 12 feet to 16 feet to make it so the big guys aren't as dominant. Well, why didn't we just say, 'You've got to learn to play against them in the post?'

Stan Van Gundy

In this business, if you lose, you're gonna get fired. Now, if you win, you still may get fired. That's the hard part. You see guys having success and getting fired. That's really tough to watch.

Stan Van Gundy

Our country was founded on protest. Otherwise, we would still be a colony of England.

Stan Van Gundy

I certainly would not call myself creative. There are other coaches who are innovative and everything else. I wouldn't be that guy, that's for sure.

Stan Van Gundy

Every coach in every sport, one of their larger concerns is the balance between work and rest. We all think about it all the time.

Stan Van Gundy

Coaches are going to adapt to whatever the rules are. The rules certainly change strategy.

Stan Van Gundy

The criticism from the media never really bothered me. I'd correct it when I can, but that's their job. If stuff wasn't personal, then it really didn't bother me.

Stan Van Gundy

I've argued for a long time here... that I think that one of the things that is absolutely killing parity is the individual maximum salary.

Stan Van Gundy

The NCAA is one of the worst organizations - maybe the worst organization - in sports. They certainly don't care about the athlete.

Stan Van Gundy

After every loss, you want to trade everybody. I've felt that way several times.

Stan Van Gundy

I'm pretty sure that every player who's ever played for me doesn't hate me. Now, we'd have to do a survey, but I've coached a lot of guys, and I'm pretty sure there's one or two that don't hate me. I don't know that any liked me. But I'm pretty sure there's one or two who don't hate me.

Stan Van Gundy

It's what you do on the court. Talking's easy.

Stan Van Gundy

I've been around a lot of great coaches in college and the NBA, and I knew Erik Spoelstra three months, and I told my wife, father, and brother that this guy is going to be a helluva coach.

Stan Van Gundy

My dad coached 41 years, and I was always around coaches.

Stan Van Gundy

I've spent my entire life around coaches.

Stan Van Gundy

I'm sort of a negative guy.

Stan Van Gundy

Tyrone Corbin is a class act.

Stan Van Gundy